Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed the news that there were no more hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus originated last December, praising …
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Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that the COVID-19 outbreak still constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). “Of course, the COVID-19 …
COVID-19 remains a public health emergency of int’l concern: WHO Read More Geneva: Governments should not issue so-called “immunity passports” or “risk-free certificates” as a way of easing lockdowns, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The WHO’s guidance is based on evidence from …
Don’t issue virus ‘immunity passports’: WHO Read More Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO), together with a group of global partners, launched a groundbreaking collaboration to accelerate both the development and equitable access to new essential technologies for COVID-19. …
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Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the number of cyber attacks against it was now more than five times of that directed at the UN body in the same …
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Geneva: All available evidence to date suggests that the novel coronavirus has a natural animal origin and was not a manipulated or constructed virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. “Many …
COVID-19 not manipulated or constructed: WHO Read More Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief called on the United States to reconsider its decision to freeze funding to the organization, and hoped that the US will once again support …
WHO chief calls on US to reconsider funding freeze Read More Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday that lifting lockdown restrictions for COVID-19 is not the end of the epidemic, it’s just the beginning of the …
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Bengaluru: Fearing Karnataka could be far behind in Covid-19 numbers, the opposition Congress on Sunday urged the state government to conduct more tests to ascertain how many people were affected by …
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New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Sunday said that a candidate vaccine called ChAdOX1 a” being developed by researchers at University of Oxford — is the frontrunner …
ICMR bats for Oxford vaccine, WHO lists 3 more as frontrunners Read More